GitOps Tooling Installation Guide ⚙️

Step-by-step installation guide for ArgoCD on a Kubernetes cluster.

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1. Installing ArgoCD on Kubernetes

# Create dedicated namespace
kubectl create namespace argocd

# Apply official ArgoCD manifest installation
kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml

# Verify all pods are running
kubectl get pods -n argocd

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2. Accessing ArgoCD UI & Retrieving Admin Password

# Port-forward UI to localhost
kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443

# Retrieve initial admin auto-generated password
kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d; echo

Access UI in browser at https://localhost:8080 (Username: admin).

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3. Installing ArgoCD CLI (argocd)

# Linux
curl -sSL -o argocd-linux-amd64 https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/latest/download/argocd-linux-amd64
sudo install -m 555 argocd-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/argocd

# macOS
brew install argocd